This guide applies to increasing the root volume size of an EBS EC2 Linux instance on AWS. By default most Linux instances come with an 8gb root volume unless you changed it at first launch. If you are one of the people that forgot to do this or you just simply need to extend the volume take a look at this guide.

If you have ever wondered how to use the Amazon SES SMTP endpoint with Postfix this is the guide for you. This is going to be very close to what is in the documentation on the AWS Website. I will cover some pain points that I have seen and ran into while trying to implement this.

The following guide will help you resize an EBS volume on a Windows instance inside EC2 on AWS. The task can be a little daunting but is quite easy once you have done it the first time. Remember this guide only helps with increasing the size of the EBS volume not decrease it.